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From: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Null-terminated C strings
Message-ID: <7108@apple.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 87 18:37:02 GMT
References: <261@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <164@sdeggo.UUCP> <174@quick.COM> <7085@apple.UUCP> <504@xyzzy.UUCP>
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>In article <504@xyzzy.UUCP> throopw@xyzzy.UUCP (Wayne A. Throop) writes:
>The string is ill-formed if the terminating character isn't there.

I wasn't talking about the case of a non-existent character, but the case where
lookahead is employed to fetch a character that might not ever get used

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